“It gets more difficult to separate plastics from the smaller fish. More time is being spent on it than earlier. There’s no time to sleep,” Vasanthi Koli, a 69-year-old fisher-woman said. “Either we can earn our livelihood, or we can sleep.”

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The BJP swept the Gujarat assembly election, after spending, by its own declaration, Rs 210 crore. A significant portion of that amount came from Vedanta, in the form of electoral bonds.

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The notification of the CAA rules was an electoral exercise to reiterate that the BJP’s position on the law remained unchanged despite the nationwide protests that the passing of the act had set off four years earlier.
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Ashok Lavasa told ‏اِرم آغا that most of the election commission remained against the #electoralbonds scheme. “Till I was there, the ECI’s stand was always against the scheme,” he said. “Why it changed, I don’t know.”

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The Caravan: Sorting the signal from the noise.

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Since 2020, while Thimphu has been constantly engaging with Beijing, New Delhi’s ties with the latter have plummeted. In this time, India’s responses to the border crisis—if they can even be called responses—have become increasingly incomprehensible.
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Ullaga Durai was never able to charge his students. “If I ask students from poor families for Rs 100–200, they will stop coming,” he said. Even today, the ones who still practise #mallakhamb mostly come from financially backward classes.

Nainu Oommen:
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In Nepal, where the BJP-RSS’s attempts to revert the secular republic to a Hindu Kingdom has not sat well with the country’s citizens, and even several of its politicians.

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“Madness is often an easy solution for writers to conclude a story, especially stories with a hero or heroine in the grip of an existential crisis,” Maria says. “In real life, though, madness is boring.”

Maya Palit on the clinic in contemporary fiction.
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PM Modi at the SemiconIndia summit 2023 in Gujarat’s Gandhinagar. Modi’s government decided to bear half the cost of Vedanta’s ultimately unsuccessful bid to produce semiconductors in Gujarat after the corporation had donated electoral bonds to the BJP.
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#Archive | 'राजनीति की प्रकृति ही है कि इसमें निरंतर बातचीत और समझौते की एक प्रक्रिया चलती रहती है. जरूरी है कि आप लचीले और यथार्थवादी हों. आप एकदम शुद्धतावादी नहीं रह सकते. आप हमेशा विशुद्ध वामपंथी या विशुद्ध दक्षिणपंथी नहीं रह सकते.'
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A look at the background of the current appointees in the EC—and the hurried manner of their appointment, which makes a mockery of due process—suggests that there may be little they can do to oppose their political masters.

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On 4 April 1949, representatives of 12 European and American nations signed the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington. The agreement resulted in the formation of the #NATO , which has since expanded to include 20 additional countries.
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Few states have had as contentious a relationship with citizenship laws as Assam. It was no surprise that the state erupted in protest as soon as the BJP government at the centre notified the rules for the CAA on 11 March this year.
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'Hospital' and 'What Kingdom' are written from the perspective of patients inside psychiatric wards, leading to intimate, intense and claustrophobic portraits of confinement and surveillance, and insights into how such spaces alter perceptions of time.
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“If there was a coaching fee, even the national players would have quit mallakhamb,” B Balaji, an 18-year-old member of the Khelo India university team, said.

#TamilNadu #Mallakhamb

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The chief justice of India, DY Chandrachud, made several ahistorical assertions about Scheduled Castes during the hearings on subcategorisation.

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For decades, many women from the Irula community have been picking prawns, crabs and oysters from the Kosasthalaiyar riverbed by hand to make a living. The thermal plant’s river pollution has resulted in health issues, such as discoloured palms and soles.
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India’s responses to the China border crisis—if they can even be called responses—have become increasingly incomprehensible.

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Fisher folks, owing to direct and prolonged contact with waste and polluted waters, have a higher risk of exposure to antimicrobial resistant microorganisms, which makes infections harder to treat.

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